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It is 14 Nov 2024.
Start the party, the AO3 is turning 15 today!
Join our anniversary celebrations with our 15 day Trivia Game and Prompts challenge. Who knows – you might end up winning a cool prize!
How well do you really know AO3? It’s more than just a place for your favorite fanworks with its rich history, unique features and its commitment to preserve fan culture. Ready to test your AO3 knowledge? Join our 15-day AO3 Trivia Game!
Trivia Game – How It Works Starting today, we’ll post one trivia question a day for the next 15 days. Collect your answers and submit to the google form for that day — we’ll do a random draw from the highest scorers, and winners will get exclusive AO3 merch!
Prompts Challenge for Creators We’ve got something for all the creators, too! Every day, we’ll post a new prompt as part of the AO3 Prompts Challenge.
You don’t have to complete every prompt – just pick the ones that inspire you. When you’re ready, share your creations and add them to our AO3 anniversary collection and join the party!
Whether you’re here for the trivia, the prompts, or neither — thank you for being with us on our fifteenth anniversary. Happy 15th!
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“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
— T.S. Eliot
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Exciting news! Game Artist wanted!
Merry Crisis is hiring*! If you are a game artist/illustrator looking for a long-term/large-scale game/visual novel to collaborate on, send your portfolio to [email protected] or DM me on Tumblr or discord @allieebobo for more information.
For non-artists: Appreciate the help to share this with any artists you may know :) Stay tuned for exciting news, including a demo/kickstarter sometime in Mar 2025!
Detailed information
Assets required:
30+ character sprites (3 main, 10 side-characters, 20+ minor characters)
50+ backgrounds (20 main, 30+ minor/one-time use)
Additional assets/UI (TBC)
Visual references:
Dream Daddy
Keyframes
Rates: DM with portfolio for more details if interested. Artists who are able to commit to doing all the characters or all the backgrounds preferred (for a consistent style).
Revenue-share model (20-25% of kickstarter/game revenue, with minimum sum guaranteed after completing 'core game assets')
Commission model (negotiable, est. budget: $50-$80USD for 3 main characters with necessary variations.*; $25-40USD for side/minor characters, $80-100USD for 20 main backgrounds, $35-50USD for minor/once-off backgrounds)
*Initial sketches for main character have been completed - rates are for polishing and converting to game sprites (e.g. variations for emotions, outfits)
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I was cleaning out a flat file and these Unfortunate Events drawings. I don't remember how they were used but thought they were fun.
- Brett Helquist, Nov 6, 2024
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the curve
somehow ive found myself in a position where folks come to chuck in times of strife for encouragement. lets get the big part of this conversation out of the way LOVE IS STILL REAL and that is the thing to remember. that north star remains. today there is more to talk about though
existence pushes towards love community and freedom, because CREATION is what we were built to do and creation thrives with these things as fuel. IT GETS BETTER. LOVE IS REAL. however this change comes in up and down waves. its not a straight line and should not be expected to be
some of these waves are short and small, and some of the slopes are years or decades long. there is no mincing words here, we are entering a massive downward wave. the implications are huge and it is okay to mourn that. FEEL THOSE FEELINGS. it is an important part of the ride
the most telling sign post on our slope is this: tromp won the popular vote (or likely will when the votes are done). we can talk POLITICAL STRATEGY all day about electoral college or who should court the center or the left and on and on but ultimately THIS is the real story
to me it signals a TRUE cultural shift. likely conservatives will have presidency, senate, house, and supreme court. WHAT A GIANT SLOPE. HOLD THE HECK ON because we will be riding it for a while, deep into the pit of the void. hold your buds tight, prove love at the local level
but heres the thing, MASSIVE waves have happened before. theyll happen again. mind numbing slopes into the abyss and great soaring leaps into the sky. in fact the inertia almost ALWAYS causes them to happen right after each other. hippies or punks back in the day, buckaroos now
politically we were trapped in a basically fifty fifty trot for a long time, but it was not always like this (just look at old election maps what the heck). to be honest, tromps map looks like one of those old maps right now. and DANG did COUNTER MOVEMENTS blooms from those times
in other words, THERE WILL BE A COUNTER CULTURE MOVEMENT THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR LIFETIMES. you are now a rebel for the resistance and the wave that will swing back towards love will awe us in ways we cannot even imagine yet.
but for now, feel those feelings, mourn, prove love, stay safe. do not let the hope i am espousing feel like a distraction from the very real, even deadly consequences of the terrible pit we are plummeting into. it is a horrible day, and FUTURE HOPE does not diminish that, BUT
get ready because that counter culture wave is coming and YOU are a part of it. if you want to shout HECK OFF DEVILS then shout it LOUD, if you want to cry then cry HARD, if you want to love then love with your WHOLE HEART. thats the start of the movement that we dont know yet
when that movement takes shape we will feel the inertia of the curve and it may make us sick from the rollercoaster turn, and that pressure will be uncomfortable and scary, but THEN buckaroo, we will soar, and ill be so dang glad to be holding on tight with you when we do
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When it’s over. N7 helmet design inspired by the story of Mass Effect! I want to eventually make the entire armor set with this design in mind. Hopefully next year! Socials/Shop
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woahhhhh hold up girl, I recognize that lack of whimsy. let's hold hands and play pretend together okay? I love you
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“Blessed are the weird people - poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours - for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
— Jacob Nordby
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girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level
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Petition to bring back the boop function next year for the ides of March where instead of a paw on the screen it’s a little knife that Caesar gets stabbed with
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The thing I love most about Abigail is that whenever I bring her a flower, she eats it. 🌷
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